[EAI] MIME type selection - finishing the process

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>]

The poll result on the MIME type name ended up with a fairly inconclusive 
result, with quite a few names having multiple people on both the "good" 
and "bad" sides.

Here is the list of candidates, culled according to the following criteria:
- At least 2 people need to say "good"
- More people need to say "good" than "bad"

That leaves us with:

A: message/utf8smtp (5:2)
B: message/i18n (3:1)
C: message/international (6:1)
D: message/global (5:1)
E: message/mail (3:0)
F: message/i18n-email (5:0)
G: message/eai (5:0)
H: message/utf8eai (4:0)
I: message/utf8-email (4:0)
J: message/ima (2:0)
K: message(intl-email (4:0)

I'm ignoring the 3 "write-in candidates", since each was proposed by only 
one participant.

I suggest, as an input to the discussion in Chicago and subsequent mailing 
list discussion, the following procedure:

- Each participant ranks the proposals he has an opinion about, in order of 
preference, and sends that to the mailing list. (It's OK to not give an 
opinion for all proposals.)
- The chairs will perform an Instant Runoff Voting algorithm on the ranked 
lists.

The procedure for Instant Runoff Voting is:

- We count the number of "first" positions for each candidate
- If there is more than 50% for one candidate, that is the winner
- If not, the candidate with the least "first" position is removed from all 
ballots, and on the ballots with that in the first place, the second choice 
is moved up to first place. (If there are no more candidates, discard 
ballot.)
- Repeat until a winner is found

The nice thing about this method is that people need to "vote" only once, 
and it's guaranteed to produce a result no matter what the distribution is.

In this particular issue, I think making a decision is more important than 
what decision is made - so even though we do not do voting in the IETF, 
making the pick based on an opinion poll of active email participants is 
better than not making a choice at all.

Comments?

                  Harald



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